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UK to hold EU referendum on 23 June

British PM Cameron announced Saturday that he will hold the referendum on EU membership on 23 June. He said outside Downing Street that voting to leave would be a "leap in the dark." "I believe Britain will be safer, strong and better off in a reformed European Union," he said.

Central European countries say they have "nothing to hide" on rule of law issues - while justice commissioner Vera Jourova said they should agree to the Commission's controversial budget plans on rule of law conditionality.

Giovanni Buttarelli, the European data protection supervisor, says the EU-US data sharing pact known as Privacy Shield will play an increasingly minor role given the general data protection regulation.